who does it will never, under
any ordinary circumstances, come to want.

The proper behavior in church should be taught rather by trying to
inculcate the spirit of worship than by making rules to be followed. A
child is very susceptible to impressiveness of any sort, and if the
reason for it is made clear to him, he will be quicker to respond to
it by a reverent attitude of spirit than does an older person. Even
the obstreperous child is at least temporarily impressed, if he sees
that others are, and if he knows the reason for it.

Children should realize that it is their privilege and duty to serve
guests, whether their own or their parents. The sacrifice of one's own
comfort for the sake of the guest takes, with a child, the form of a
sort of play, usually because of the excitement of the arrival of a
stranger, and the possibilities of fun in the enjoyment of the
stranger's stay.

The child should be taught respect for the guest's person, and should
not be allowed to take the same liberties with a gown or a glove that
sometimes the mother or aunts permit, no matter how great the novelty
of the texture or how it appeals to the child's sense of beauty. The
privileges of being a guest should be always duly respected, and the
child be thus taught at once his duty as a host and his position as a
guest.

Children should never be allowed to play with a visitor's hat or cane,
or handle furniture or ornaments in a strange house, or show by
ill-mannerly conduct the curiosity which a child, in unaccustomed
surroundings, naturally feels. They can be taught so great a respect
for the possessions of others that they would become able to stifle
their curiosity, or express it only at a fitting time.

Children should not be sent to the drawing-room to entertain
visitors, unless the visitors request it themselves. Nor should they
be allowed to be troublesome to visitors or guests at any time, any
more than servants should be allowed to be insolent. They should never
be allowed the freedom of the rooms of the guests, nor to visit them
often or long.

Children should not be permitted to enter into the pleasures of their
elders when, to do so, would be to spoil the kind of sociability for
which the occasion was intended. At all formal functions, children are
out of place. When making formal calls, children are usually in the
way, and the silent part they are forced to play is disagreeable for
them. They are also out of place at a